Michael Glennon

Michael J. Glennon is Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University. Prior to going into teaching, he was Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1977-1980). He has since been a Fulbright Distinguished Professor of International and Constitutional Law, Vytautus Magnus University School of Law, Kaunas, Lithuania (1998); a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. (2001-2002); Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Scholar at the United States Military Academy, West Point (2005); Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law (2006); and professeur invité at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) from 2006 to 2012. Professor Glennon has served as a consultant to various congressional committees, the U.S. State Department, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He has testified before the International Court of Justice and multiple congressional committees. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. Professor Glennon is the author of numerous articles on constitutional and international law as well as several books; his latest is Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom: The Dangerous Allure of Censorship in the Digital Era (2024). His shorter pieces have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, the Financial Times, theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Foreign Affairs, and Harper's Magazine. He teaches courses on the International Legal Order, Public International Law, Foreign Relations and National Security Law, and Freedom of Speech.